Originally Posted by
rahc
I thought 4200 was as low as they could go.... (45 minutes) That was for the aircraft that were adjusted with the fuel low caution light.. the non-modded planes were 5000 lbs instead for the min at destination.
4200 is when the lights come on. They changed that so they could run us with lower fuel and not have the lights come on all the time. If they want to they can plan you with lower than that, you just get the lights. You don't see it very often, but I have seen a number of times when the fuel was under 4200. Only seen it at 3900 once and the captain and I both scratched our heads for awhile. We had lots of taxi fuel in there for ATL and the lines were not long, so we didn't worry about it and had around 5K when it was all said and done.